Agenda

8:00 - 8:45 am — Registration and Breakfast

8:45 - 9:00 am — Welcome Address

• Prodromos Daoutidis, College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota

9:00 - 9:30 am — Keynote Talk

• Mike Kesti, Senior Vice President, 3M

Morning Session – The Rapidly Evolving AI Adoption Landscape:

9:30 - 10:10 am

• Bea Braun, R&D / TS&D Fellow – Digital Innovation, Dow Chemical

• Linda Hung, Senior Manager, Toyota Research Institute

10:10 - 10:20 am — Break

10:20 - 11:00 am

• Vikram Agarwal, Head of mRNA Platform Design Data Science, mRNA Center of Excellence, Sanofi

• Matthew Mills, Advanced Data Science Specialist, 3M

11:00 - 11:20 am — Discussion / Q&A

11:20 - 11:35 am — Overview of Academic Research in Data Science

11:35 am - 1:30 pm — Poster Session and Lunch

Afternoon Session – Frameworks for AI Implementation and Value Attainment:

1:30 - 2:50 pm

• Todd Lohr, Principal, Head of Ecosystems, KPMG

• Gregory Mulholland, CEO, Citrine Informatics

• Thomas von Tschammer, Co-Founder and U.S. Managing Director, Neural Concept

• Mark Huntington, Managing Director, North America, PhysicsX

2:50 - 3:10 pm — Discussion / Q&A

3:10 - 3:25 pm — Break

3:25 - 4:25 pm — Panel Discussion: AI at Scale

Moderated by:

• Jayshree Seth, Corporate Scientist and Chief Science Advocate, 3M and

• Surya Iyer, President, Polar Semiconductor

Panelists:

• Tom Hockenberry, Vice President Technology & Science, General Mills

• Rodolphe Katra, Global Chief AI Officer, Medtronic

• Mike Kesti, Senior Vice President, 3M

• Derek Shaw, Global Vice President & CIO, H.B. Fuller

4:25 - 5:30 pm — Closing Remarks and Networking Reception